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A 410-million-year-old Prototaxites fossil found in the Rhynie area of Aberdeenshire has been added to the National Museums Scotland collection and will be cared for at its Edinburgh collection centre.
At Davos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said AI must show measurable benefits for health, education and productivity or it may lose public support, and he linked that requirement to AI's rising energy use.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust is carrying out woodland works at Forest Wood in Cumbernauld as part of the £2.6m Nurturing Natural Connections Heritage Fund project. The work includes thinning non-native trees and creating a yellow rattle field and is scheduled to finish in March.
Retired Australian centre Andrew "AJ" Ogilvy has publicly come out as gay in an interview with Isaac Humphries during the NBL's pride round. He said the current climate in the sport allows more open conversation and that Humphries' earlier announcement gave him courage.